Desire and denial in Byzantium : papers from the thirty-first spring symposium of Byzantine studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1997 /: papers from the thirty-first spring symposium of Byzantine studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1997. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Liz James.
• Other Names: James, Liz; Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain); Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, 31st
• Contents: Contents: Preface; Section I: Love Letters?: From Byzantium, with love, Margaret Mullett; ’Shutting the gates of the soul’: spiritual treatises on resisting the passions, Mary B. Cunningham; Section II: Do as your Father tells you: The sexual and social dangers of Pornai in the Septuagint Greek stratum of patristic Christian Greek thought, Kathy L. Gaca; Manly women and womanly men: the subintroductae and John Chrysostom, Aideen Hartney; Anastasios of Sinai’s teaching on body and soul, Joseph A. Munitiz; Divine sex: Patriarch Methodios’s concept of virginity, Dirk Krausmüller; The city a desert: Theodore of Stoudios on porneia, Peter Hatlie; Section III: Problems with Bodies: Desires denied: marriage, adultery and divorce in early Byzantine law, Bernard Stolte; Body vs column: the cults of St Symeon Stylites, Antony Eastmond; Christian bodies: the senses and early Byzantine Christianity, Béatrice Caseau; Writing on the body: memory, desire, and the holy in iconoclasm, Charles Barber; Section IV: Fine Manly Bodies: Passing the test of sanctity: denial of sexuality and involuntary castration, Kathryn M. Ringrose; In denial: same-sex desire in Byzantium, Dion C. Smythe; Michael III and Basil the Macedonian: just good friends?, Shaun Tougher; Section V: Byzantine Erotica: Ninth-century classicism and the erotic muse, Marc Lauxtermann; Erotic imagery on Byzantine ivory caskets, John Hanson; Ostentatio genitalium: displays of nudity in Byzantium, Barabara Zeitler; Section VI: Conclusion: Desire in Byzantium” the Ought and the Is, Averil Cameron; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 949.502; 306.7/09495; Sex in art -- Congresses; Sex in literature -- Congresses; Sex -- Byzantine Empire -- History -- Congresses; Sex customs -- Byzantine Empire -- History -- Congresses; Sex; Sex customs; Sex in art; Sex in literature; Liefde; Seksualiteit; Letterkunde; Byzantijns-Grieks; Erotische Kunst; Geschichte; Sexualverhalten; Sexualverhalten; Geschichte; Kongress; Byzantine Empire; Byzantinisches Reich; Byzantinisches Reich; Kongress -- Brighton -- 1997; Conference papers and proceedings; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351945011; 1351945017
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